A 92-year-old woman continues to bring joy to patients and staff after working for a volunteer in the cancer treatment ward at Pilgrim Hospital in Boston for over a decade.
Eileen Daubney began work as a volunteer in the Oncology Suite 14 years ago and supports patients who come into the Day Unit for cancer treatment.
Staff and patients said it’s the little things she does which make such a big difference, including Steven Sellars who told BBC Look North: “She never stops, she’s always on the go, she’s always got a kind word, and she always says her patients come first.”
Eileen, who was an Olympic Torch bearer when it came through the town back in 2012, told BBC Look North: “My son-in-law retired, we had a big retirement party and I could a see gentleman looking at me and he came over, he said ‘I remember you from six years ago, you gave me lots of cups of tea and good sandwiches’.”
She is one of more than 200 volunteers across Lincolnshire’s hospitals and bosses want to increase that number to 1,000.
Andy Tyson, voluntary services manager, said: “Everybody comes into hospital hoping to be fixed or to be made better, but what they take away is the memories of the little things that people did for them, the personal things, and volunteers can deliver that all day long.”
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Protesters appealed to Lincoln councillors from across all parties to join them in a minute’s silence to honour the victims of the Israel-Hamas war, but none participated.
Organised by members of the Lincoln Trade Union and Socialist Coalition (Lincoln TUSC) and Lincoln Friends of Palestine, the vigil took place outside the Guildhall during Tuesday’s full council meeting, where attendees called on local representatives to take a moment out of their busy agenda to join them in solidarity.
A new driver who caused the deaths of two teenage friends just 28 days after passing her test was spared jail after a judge heard moving pleas from her victims’ families.
Lara Jensen, 20, from Grimsby, was taking a group of young friends to watch the sunset before they all went off to university when she misjudged a triangular junction and crossed in front of an oncoming car.
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